9:04 AM
cracked commented on Why They Break Windows.
@54 While I don't support violent methods in our current conditions, and I don't think the folks described in the slog piece above have thought it through that deeply, I do believe their acts are political and appear to be more than just acts for thrills. However, your contention that the ballot method led by those individuals who have "spent years developing technique and skill" is more effective is not born out in the last 20 years, as shown by the steady increase in the dominance of our society by the mega rich, the increase in income inequality, the erosion of the middle class, and the power of the energy industry to prevent even minor attempts to address the oncoming climate catastrophe. Perhaps the ballot method needs to be led by some other individuals... or some other non-violent method needs to be used.
4:14 AM
cracked commented on Why They Break Windows.
@47 Someone breaking my window shouldn't be a green light for the police to assault anyone who walks down my street and gets on their nerves. You seem to think that is perfectly reasonable, just to make sure everybody knows their place.
11:31 PM yesterday
cracked commented on Why They Break Windows.
The people arrested and described here are clearly NOT the highly organized black mask people who broke so many windows last year and who police for some reason did not arrest. I'm still asking about where those highly organized masked people are and why they never show up anywhere where police would be obliged to arrest them. The police and those highly effective and organized vandals seem uniquely capable of avoiding each other.
@35 Yes, if you are going to nonviolently be anywhere near a protest, but especially if you are nonviolently in a protest, be prepared to be ruffed up needlessly and sadistically. Check out this casual tasering at 0.12 at a nonviolent antiforeclosure protest. This is not an accident - this is how they are being trained, to be banally evil. I think they see it as one of the perks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XA33qI4…
@35 Yes, if you are going to nonviolently be anywhere near a protest, but especially if you are nonviolently in a protest, be prepared to be ruffed up needlessly and sadistically. Check out this casual tasering at 0.12 at a nonviolent antiforeclosure protest. This is not an accident - this is how they are being trained, to be banally evil. I think they see it as one of the perks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XA33qI4…
May 21
cracked commented on What President Obama Can and Can't Do.
History is going to judge Obama primarily as the president who had the first shot at taking on climate change catastrophe and struck out looking a strike three, while whining about how hard it is to score a goal in this game.
May 21
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
@81 We already have requirements for off street parking for new apartment buildings based on estimated number of occupants. This is based on a policy. The current city approval of the apodments allows for each cluster to be considered an apartment. The city should be showing the neighbors a study saying the street impact will be the same or less or explaining explicitly who made the policy decision to require less parking, but they instead finagle the rules to get more people with less parking per person and carry out their own developer led social engineering with no sense of obligation to explain environmental impacts.
May 20
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
@70 Ok, Holden, I went to your article. Here's your final word on the impact to existing neighborhood parking: "And as it happens, free parking in front of your house isn't a constitutional right." That's a big fuck you to current residents of a Seattle neighborhood and big smoochy to the developers with their multi-garage homes on Mercer Island or wherever.
At least you were honest about the other fuck yous to current neighborhoods. One, you even said it, the developers and their city handmaidens basically lied and manipulated the current code. "The city and developers classified the building as six units (with up to eight bedrooms each), instead of as an apartment building with dozens of units, which would have required a more public process"
As to further recourse, more fuck you. Design review boards don't cover "The complaints about density, parking, zoning, taxing, etc." I know someone who quit the board he was on because there was basically zero input on anything that mattered.
You claim superiority by claiming the primary issue is cultural with you taking the high road. I have no problem with apodments, but I do have a problem with saying fuck you to and steam rolling the people who live somewhere, taking away their right to a say in how their living environment changes. You seem to love that part.
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At least you were honest about the other fuck yous to current neighborhoods. One, you even said it, the developers and their city handmaidens basically lied and manipulated the current code. "The city and developers classified the building as six units (with up to eight bedrooms each), instead of as an apartment building with dozens of units, which would have required a more public process"
As to further recourse, more fuck you. Design review boards don't cover "The complaints about density, parking, zoning, taxing, etc." I know someone who quit the board he was on because there was basically zero input on anything that mattered.
You claim superiority by claiming the primary issue is cultural with you taking the high road. I have no problem with apodments, but I do have a problem with saying fuck you to and steam rolling the people who live somewhere, taking away their right to a say in how their living environment changes. You seem to love that part.
May 20
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
@1 Holden knows perfectly well that the biggest problem is lack of chance for community input and ramming projects through loopholes in current regs never meant to deal with this kind of housing. He's just twisting the lense to manipulate the perception of the view toward his chosen end. It's his m.o., whether you like his objectives or not.
May 20
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
I have nothing against the pods, but I do have a problem with developers twisting current definitions of zoning and building requirements to create housing without addressing impacts that other kinds of housing would have to address, such as parking. I know Holden thinks all his sainted pod dwellers will ride bicycles, but the truth is that they will be people like everybody else in this public transport wasteland and a large percentage of them will own/need cars one way or another. If you triple the number of people in a given piece of real estate, you can't pretend you are having LESS impact on the community around you.
May 18
cracked commented on The Saturday Morning News.
@13 BS artistry. In 1983, with a Pell grant you could pay your tuition at a top public university and rent on an apartment working less than full time at a coffee shop. Student loans were needed in small amounts as a stop gap or supplement, not needed in amounts that put you in debt the equivalent of whole years of salary.
May 18
cracked commented on The Saturday Morning News.
In your comment on the Lakewood police case, it would have shown the importance of the news more if you has noted that the lawyer got copies of the docs that were made before the originals were destroyed and that the Lakewood police are not denying that the prior existence of the missing documents. It's a pretty damning admission.
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